Roots
IrishCentral’s repository of everything to do with your Irish roots – from Irish history, your ancestors, your Irish name, to ancient myth, legend and folklore.
The history of Ireland Uilleann pipes
Explore your family's history as six more historic Irish newspapers go online
Site of Michael Collins’ assassination to be renovated
Who was Irish American hero Dorothy Day praised by Pope Francis?
Sister cities in Ireland and the US team up for 2016
British Labour Leader to erect plaque to 1916 heroine Countess Markievicz
National Famine Commemoration held in Northern Ireland for the first time
“Scandal” as Westmeath Bronze Age oak road mulched for compost
Rare examples of Irish American coins in the 1700s - 1800s (PHOTOS)
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- 2 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 3 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 4 “Who speaks properly?” Belfast toddler puts her parents' accents to the test
- 5 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 6 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 7 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 8 Ireland’s most-visited heritage sites in 2023, from castles to monuments to gardens
- 9 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
History
On This Day: John Barry, the Irish "Father of the American Navy," dies in 1803
Expert Irish genealogy group publishes new guide to Irish Civil Registration
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
On This Day: JFK defended his Catholic faith to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
Genealogy
